Fence-post



J. MOKEE.

FENCE POST.

Patented Nov. 11, 1890.

(No Model.) I

UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE JOI-IN MOKEE, OF NILES,v OHIO.

FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,323, dated November 11, 1890.

Application filed August 2, 1890.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MCKEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Niles, in the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Fence-Post, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fence-posts and it has for its object to construct a device of this class which shall be simple, inexpensive, and

durable, and in which a base of burnt clay shall be combined with a wooden upright in such a manner that the latter may be easily attached and renewed as occasion may require.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of details,which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fence-post embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a bottom view of a fence-post embodying my improvements.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

1 designates the base of my improved fencepost, which is molded of clay, cement, or other suitable material while in a plastic state, and which is afterward burned or permitted to dry to a sufficient degree of hardness. As shown in the drawings hereto annexed, I prefer to make my improved post cruciform in cross section, the vertical ribs or flanges thus formed serving to strengthen and re-enforce the body without waste of material. This base is provided at its lower end with a flange 2, and near its upper end lugs 3 3 are formed on opposite sides of one of the ribs or flanges 4.. The base is also provided with a vertical perforation 5, extending through its entire length, and through this perforation is inserted a metal rod or wire 6, the ends of which may be threaded for the reception of nuts, or they may, as shown in the drawings hereto annexed, be provided with loops 8, through which keys or wedges 9 are driven to strain or stretch the said rod or wire to a high degree of tension, thus serving to re-enforce the base.

Horizontal perforations 10 are formed Serial No. 360,764. (No model.)

through the lugs 3 for the reception of wire staples or clamps 11, by means of which a post 12 of wood is attached to the base.

The operation and advantages of my invention will be readily understood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings, hereto annexed,

The construction of the device is simple and inexpensive, and the portion of the de vice which sets in the ground being impervious to and unaffected by moisture and the like, it is practically indestructible.

That part of the device which is constructed of wood is entirely above the ground and may be easily renewed when necessary.

I have in the foregoing described what I consider to be the preferred form of my improved fence-post; butI desire to state thatI reserve the right to any modifications in the construction of details which may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The invention may also, by making such modifications as will readily suggest themselves to the skilled mechanic, be adapted for use as a hitching-post or for various other purposes, which it is not deemed necessary here to enumerate.

Having thus described my invention, I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States-- 1. In a fence-post, the combination, with a base composed of earthenware or equivalent material and having vertical ribs or flanges and provided with horizontally-perforated lugs located on opposite sides of 'one of said ribs or flanges, of a wooden post or upright secured by means of staples to said horizontally-perforated lugs, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a fence-post, a base constructed of earthenware or analogous material, cruciform in horizontal section and provided with the vertical perforation extending through its entire length, in combination with a rod or wire extending through said perforation and having loops or eyes at its ends, and the keys or wedges extending through said loops or eyes, substantially as set forth.

3. In a fence-post, the combination of the vertically-perforated base having laterallyextending horizontally-perforated lugs, the

rod or Wire extending vertically through said In testimony that I claim the foregoing as base and having looped ends, the keys or my own I have hereto affixed my signature in [O Wedges extending through the loops at the presence of two Witnesses.

ends of said Vertical rod, and a Wooden post 5 or upright secured by means of staples pass- JOHN MCKEE.

ing through the horizontal perforations of Witnesses: said post, substantially as and for the purpose WM. L METCALF,

set forth. 0. L. MOOARTY. 

